Presented in association with SWAP'ra

This year’s Spring Song focuses on women composers, the countless gifted figures who vanished from our recital stages. Over the course of four lecture- recitals, with an array of exceptional artists curated and led by the ever-brilliant Natasha Loges, we will celebrate and explore songs by four composers: Hedwige Chrétien, Margarete Schweikert, Elizabeth Maconchy and Johanna Müller-Hermann, showing how their music both fitted into and challenged expectations of song composition in their day. We will also be launching the Forgotten Voices resources about women composers on the Oxford Lieder website.

Hedwige Chrétien, 2pm-3pm

Natasha Loges speaker
Leah Broad speaker
Sophie Bevan soprano
Anna Tilbrook piano

Hedwige Chrétien (1859-1944) was a highly regarded French composer, and Professor at the Paris Conservatoire, who wrote an impressive body of songs. This lecture recital includes songs by Chrétien and by Hector Berlioz.

Johanna Müller-Hermann, 4pm-5pm

Natasha Loges speaker
Leah Broad speaker
James Atkinson baritone
Anna Tilbrook piano

Johanna Müller-Hermann (1878-1941) was an Austrian composer, who studied with Zemlinsky and was later theory and composition tutor at the New Vienna Conservatory. She was hugely well known in the first decades of the 20th century, and her songs in particular are now enjoying an overdue revival. This lecture recital features songs by Müller-Hermann and by Richard Strauss.

SWAP'ra have received generous support from the Wavendon Foundation, the Golsoncott Foundation, the Ralph Vaughan Williams Trust, The Winship Foundation, and the Royal Musical Association.

Festival Suppers

Click here to join us at The Nosebag for tonight's festival dinner, the perfect break between this study event and the evening concert. 

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TRY BEFORE YOU BUY

Watch Kitty Whately perform with pianist Simon Lepper at the Oxford Lieder Festival 2020.

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